Pass-Happy Patriots Don’t Need Balanced Offense to Repeat as Super Bowl Champs

January 17, 2016   ·   Brent Sobleski   ·   Jump to comments

If the NFL is already considered a passing league, the New England Patriots took it to another level Saturday during the team's 27-20 victory in the divisional round of the playoffs against the Kansas City Chiefs in Foxborough, Massachusetts. 
Conventional wisdom favors a team's having a balanced offensive attack to be most effective, yet the Patriots don't fit conventional norms. As a result, Bill Belichick's squad will play in a fifth straight AFC Championship Game next week and the 10th in Tom Brady's 14 years as a starter. 
What New England's staff does better than any other group of coaches around the league is build a game plan around its available talent. 
"[Offensive coordinator] Josh McDaniels and Coach Belichick have done a great job of leading our offense," wide receivers coach Chad O'Shea told Bleacher Report in an earlier interview. "They take what the players do best and allow them to do that."
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